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Sierra Associates is focused on providing solutions and services that enable higher productivity and cost savings. We build solid strategic partnerships with each customer in order to provide lasting value in everything we do. Similar to large corporations, the SMB market requires robust solutions—servers, desktops, switches, firewalls—multi-level products to keep businesses operational.

Your staff’s ability to effectively perform daily tasks largely depends on the stability and
performance of your network. Our team has the knowledge and experience to implement, reinforce and maintain a multitude of solutions to benefit any company size—SMB to the Enterprise, you can count on our support.

Storage

NetApp’s StoreVault product line provides simple, affordable storage solutions for small and medium-sized business problems. A single, multi-function platform addresses storage consolidation, first-time SANs, disk-based backup, disaster recovery and server virtualization. Based on NetApp’s powerful datacenter-proven technologies yet accessible to non-storage experts, StoreVault provides the space you need, when you need it and flexes as your business changes.

A single StoreVault system is a strategic investment for small businesses and reduces the time and cost involved with storage management. Backing up a complete multi-terabyte Microsoft SQL Server database can be done completely in seconds, not hours, and recovery is just as fast. First-time SAN adopters can be up and running in minutes, and future growth can be accommodated gracefully at future prices instead of purchased up front. More intelligent storage lets a business with limited IT resources focus on more important tasks, and addresses traditional problems with leading-edge, intelligent technology.

StoreVault solutions can do some or all of the following things for your network:

Solution Feature Benefit
SAN iSCSI
Fibre Channel
  • Instant application backup
  • Instant application restores
  • Capacity expansion with no downtime
  • Storage for databases (Microsoft Small Business Server, Exchange, SQL Server, Oracle)
  • Storage for virtual machines (VMware, XenSource, Virtual Iron)
NAS

CIFS
NFS
  • Consolidate or eliminate Microsoft, UNIX/Linux and Macintosh file servers
  • Cross-platform file sharing between Windows, Mac and UNIX/Linux
  • Disk-to-Disk Backup (D2D)
  • Disk-to-to-Tape Disk Backup (D2D2T)

Microsoft
Application
Protection

 SnapManager for Exchange
SnapManager for SQL
  • Protects mission critical application data
  • Instant, complete, consistent backups and restores
  • No waiting to recover complete multi-terabyte databases
  • Like a backup agent - but much faster
Disaster
Recovery		 StoreVault Replication
  • Off-site backup and restore
  • Includes all data on StoreVault (NAS, SAN or both)
  • No third-party software or servers required
  • Only moves changed blocks for maximum efficiency
Server
Virtualization		 NFS
iSCSI
Fibre Channel Protocol
  • Certified by VMware, XenSource and Virtual Iron
  • Single platform for file serving and virtual machines
  • Integrated snapshot management with some vendors

 

Solutions That Fit Your Business